Psychic Ills

Psychic Ills
Psychic Ills, 2011
Background information
Origin	New York City, NY, USA
Genres	Psychedelic rock Experimental rock
Years active	2003 - present
Labels	Sacred Bones Records, The Social Registry, The Spring Press, RVNG INTL.
Associated acts	Messages, Effi Briest, Skint, Compound Eye,
Website	www.psychicills.com
Members	Tres Warren Elizabeth Hart
Past members	Tom Gluibizzi Chris Millstein Brian Tamborello Jimy SeiTang

Psychic Ills are an American experimental rock/psychedelic rock band from New York City, consisting of Tres Warren (vocals/guitar) and Elizabeth Hart (vocals/bass). They formed in 2003, and have released five albums, one compilation, four EPs and a number of singles. For the period 2005 to 2010, the band were signed to The Social Registry. Since then their albums have been released by Sacred Bones Records.

Tres Warren (b. 1978) was born and raised in Texas, where he attended the University of Texas at Austin and met Elizabeth Hart. Formed by Tres Warren, the band made their debut on the Mental Violence label with the single "Killers" b/w "Vice" in November 2003. It was followed by the four-track EP Mental Violence II: Diamond City released through The Social Registry in November 2005. It included a remix of the title track by Sonic Boom. These two releases together with two tracks that appeared on separate compilations were collected on Early Violence. Warren later described the beginning of the band as "I had just gotten this Roland TR-707 drum machine, and I was getting into programming drums and writing songs. There wasn’t really a course planned ahead, and it just evolved into a live band".

The band released their first full-length album, Dins, in February 2006. Produced by Charles Burst, it featured Tom Gluibizzi (guitar/keyboards) and Brian Tamborello on drums. Concerning the recording process at this time Warren explained that it involved "improvised jamming, and seeing if you could write a song that way". The album's cover art is German Fluxus artist Wolf Vostell's painting Three Hairs and Shadow.

In early 2008, Psychic Ills performed in Marfa, Texas for the opening of the Hello Meth Lab in the Sun art installation and at the Contemporary Art Museum in Bordeaux, France for the IAO festival. In 2009 they released Mirror Eye preceded by the single "Mantis". In the same year they toured as support to the Butthole Surfers and collaborated with Gibby Haynes. In 2010 keyboard player Jimy SeiTang left the band.